Movable Stationery Vol 15 No 4 Nov 2007

MOWABLE The Next Generation of Pop-up Artists Shawn Sheehy Kyle Olmon New York, New York T have noticed lately that many young paper engineers and book artists are developing sophisticated and exciting movable and pop-up books and projects. It is my hope to bring some awareness to this group of next generation

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evolution. With degrees in elementary education and graphic design, he completed the MFA program in Book & Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago where he is now an adjunct faculty member. In 2005 Shawn went to Ghana to help develop a locally-run paper mill that would generate income for the local community. His artists' books have become part of the John Wing Collection at the Newberry Library in Chicago, Special Collections at UCLA, and the Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking in Atlanta. I spoke with Shawn in October as he was frantically preparing for the release of his latest work.

Kyle Olmon: We first met in 2000 at the MBS conference in Milwaukee, WI. You were sharing an amazing prototype of your Animal Architecture book that was constructed

primarily from cereal boxes.

Can you tell me how you got your start with movable books?

Rex Roach pop-up artists in a series of interviews and articles. My first artist selection seems appropriate, as he was one of the first designers I met while making my way into this tight-knit community of movable book engineers and enthusiasts. His name will be familiar to readers who have attended previous Movable Book Society conferences, but his interesting backstory may not be.

Shawn Sheehy: In 1997, I created a primitive pop-up book for the Madison Area Technical College out of rubber cement and scrap paper. I am an autodidact,

but

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bookshelves for titles like

[Robert Sabuda's] The Christmas Alphabet for inspiration. My book

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received a lot of good feedback, so I decided to remake it right. It was that book that got me a fellowship at Columbia College in Chicago and started me on my way.

KO: That is where you are currently working, correct?

SS: Yes. After finishing my MFAA program in Book & Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago I became the studio manager at the Center for Book & Paper Arts and adjunct instructor teaching book arts and papermaking. I have just begun my fifth year with the program. In addition, I give five or six workshops a year where I focus on the basics of paper engineering in

bookmaking.

Snapdragon

Shawn Sheehy creates artists' books that reflect on themes

of sustainability, balance, and biological and cultural

KO: So it is safe to say that you identify yourself as a book artist. Do you see Book Arts gaining more credit and exposure in the world of art?

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increases as the availability of "good" material decreases.

When this happens, I have found that two choices exist. One choice is to move laterally to another area of collecting (1 have started collecting miniature books and puzzles). The second choice is to step up to the next psychological level of purchasing. There is more risk and reward in the higher priced material, and the competition is fierce. However, I still get as much joy from the mechanism of a modern pop up as I do from looking at a 200 year old Biedermeier

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Moving up to the next dollar level is a psychological hurdle. There are barriers at breaking through the $10-$50$100-$500-$1000 levels, each to be met with a bit of trepidation. I remember my first purchase of a $100 book very clearly. I had been buying at flea markets and antique shops and would pay $20-50 at most for a book, postcard, toy, or game. There was little risk ifI made a mistake. I was making very little on a resident's salary and was recently married. Lost and Found was a shop where I had frequently bought items during my residency 20 years ago. The Lady of Shallot was a beautiful color plate book by Pyle and his first full chromolithography printed in the US in 1881 (not a movable). I paid $100 after much agonizing. I later realized it was missing the front endpaper. I don't regret owning it and admiring it for the last 20 years.

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Musings of a Movable Book Collector: The Mechanism behind the Madness Larry Seidman Drlar7@aol.com Springfield, Virginia

The first pop-up I bought was Robot by Jan Piehkowski around 23 years ago when I was 23 at a store called Mythology in Manhattan. Two years later, the CooperHewitt museum had an exhibit on Meggendorfer with a sixminute video showing the mechanisms working and the Genius of Lothar Meggendorfer for sale. I was hooked. Ten years ago I was sitting at a children's book conference in New York City, listening to a dealer named Antonio Raimo talk about Meggendorfers from his collection. There was a young man sitting next to me who went up afterward to ask questions. We became friends. He is Robert Sabuda. We love these movable books.

Collectors pass through three phases in their careers.

The first is the honeymoon phase, when we are unsophisticated, and purchase quickly, we "have to have it," view others in competition. Dealers love this phase.

We buy aa lot, question little, get burned sometimes, and amass a lot of junk." We are eager to learn and have not fully developed our vision. We are generalists, and like many things. We can appreciate the rare and unusual, but are scared by the price, and afraid to make a mistake. We pass up a lot of opportunities. We love the new, appreciate the old, and wonder if others think we are crazy for collecting "children's books." We may have one or two ptized possessions. We buy the reproductions of Nister and Meggendorfer and think one day we may own an original. We love flea markets, garage and estate sales, ebay, and the remainder shelves in bookstores. We love the hunt, the find, the chase. We dream about the day we appear on Antiques Roadshow with the dusty Meggendorfer that came out of the attic at a yard sale for $6.00. We gobble up any knowledge from dealers and collectors. We love these movable books.

The third phase is the expert. This person has been a collector or dealer for at least 25 years. I consider the triumvirate of children's book dealers: Ann Bromer, Jo Ann Reisler, and Helen Younger to be experts in the field. The expert has seen everything and is selective in purchasing. He may be one who is downsizing, retiring, nearing the end of his collecting career, and deciding the best way to dispose of the collection. How is it best to pass on the legacy to future generations? This person, like Wally Hunt, may give the collection to a museum. Others may auction off their collection. Still others may have a dealer put out a special catalog, like the Bromer's did for Blair Whitton. Who has the greatest collection of movable books today? One collector I truly admire is Werner Nekes, German film maker, who has put out six unbelievable videos on his collection of precinema toys, optical illusions, and movable books that is Continued on page 9 quite comprehensive.

The second or intermediate phase is the mature, seasoned collector. ]I consider myself and Ellen Rubin to be in this phase. We scrutinize, look over our collections, and realize the mistakes we made. We remember the one that got away. We may start to deal, trade, exchange, sell off, and downsize. Some of us may try our hand at shows.

I have found pleasure in consignment with book dealers.

Others will use auctions or donate to libraries. Impatience

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Frankfurt Book Fair 2007 Part 1

Apian's Cosmographia, without doubt the most beautiful folio volume that ever has been made. The large volvelles, have up to seven hand-colored circling wheels on a page,

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one upon another, all are magnificent. It was quite an experience to be on the grounds where Gutenberg, in the 15" century, started printing for the very first time in history, and to be able to see some of his own printed books, including no less than three copies of his renowned 42-line Bible that generally marks the start of the art of printing.

The museum has a large and outstanding collection of printed books documenting the complete history of printing from the very beginning in the mid-15" century up to our days. As an extra, the museum has a copy of the first printing press as used by Gutenberg, that is demonstrated by a guide. Interesting also for me was the new section that shows both the way wood engravings came into existence, and the complete step-by-step process of (color) lithography.

The museum's shop had another movable-related surprise, about which I will tell later in this contribution.

Each year at the end of August, when I have returned from summer holidays and I am back at work preparing for the new book season, the mysterious fair-fever sneaks into my blood and mind again. On one hand, it means a lot of work studying the pile of publisher's fall catalogs and the book trade professional magazines, making appointments with the representatives to discuss sales, orders, and marketing conditions for the shop's assortment, preparing deliberation with the publishers about old (financial) problems and new plans, and making appointments with international friends in the field to meet them again. On the other hand, there grows also this tickling feeling of being plunged into the yearly warm bath of thousands of new books, books, books. Day-by-day the adrenalin in my blood increases and I can only impatiently wait to see like the child in the twelve days of Christmas what surprising presents the writers, illustrators and, especially, the paper engineers have prepared and will show me this year. Shortly thereafter, the Frankfurt Book Fair of early October comes into sight.

This is a delightful, five-day feast for a book-man like me, where about 7,500 publishers from all over the world display their cultural commodities for me and the almost 300,000 other visitors. What's more, there is an array of other book-related events both in the Fair and in the city of Frankfurt. They range from professional conferences, gatherings, lectures, press conferences and presentations, through special activities organized by the Guest of Honor of the fair (this year it was the Catalan culture from Spain), to signing sessions by well-known authors, artists -

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Before starting a survey of the new and future movable and pop-up books as seen at the fair, short attention has to be given to the guest of honor of this year's Frankfurt Book of course restricted to the Fair, the Catalan Culture of movable and perspective pop-up books. Catalonia is, the said, roughly prosperous region in north-east Spain with Barcelona as its capital, and including the Balearic Islands.

It has its own culture and language that was suppressed for centuries by the central government in Madrid. But, in recent years, the region has received a special status within the kingdom, and several political groups in the region even aspire to complete independence. The cultural Institut Ramon Llull, that was responsible for the organization ofthe activities on the fair, presented as Cultura Catalana Singular I Universal, borrows its name from the Mallorcan writer, scholar, and mystic Ramon Llull (1232-1315). With his romantic novel Blanquerna (1283), Llull wrote the first major work of Catalan language literature. For the readership of Movable Stationery, however, aware of the history of movable books, Ramon Llull will be known as the first one to use movable elements in his books. His Ars Magna, published as early as the year 1315, is the first book with volvelles, hence also known by book historians as "Llullian circles." Unfortunately no copy of the book was shown in the special hall that featured the book history of the Catalan culture at the fair, but, virtually, the book was shown there with movements.

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~ Iam in the luxurious position of traveling a whole day to get to Frankfurt. So, it is no longer a last-minute flight or a late evening high-speed train ride, but, instead, I take the opportunity to have an easy ride along the borders of

the Rhine enjoying the fall changing colors of the trees on the hills, spotting some last vintners gathering their ripe grapes, and wondering how another ruin of an old castle on the top of the hills that border the river has been rebuilt in the last year.

For a break I had planned a visit of the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz where I hoped to purchase a copy of the publication that accompanied last year's exhibition of paper toys from the Jos. Scholz publishing house. Based in Mainz from the early 19" century, they were also known for some interesting novelty books.' From home I had made an appointment with one of the curators of the museum to show me their copy of the 1540 edition of

Many more three-dimensional and novelty elements in books were seen at the related exhibition "visualKultur.cat" of artists' books and graphic design from Catalonia in the Frankfurt Museum fiir angewandte Kunst (Museum of applied Arts). In the magnificent museum building, itself a work of art, designed in 1985 by the New York architect Richard Meier, a wealth of artist's paper designs and 3

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Coromi artist the Quim Book Society member, showed some of his artistic peepshows, and the two great "Comediants" in the novelty books published by the directed Nit technically and La and 1980s: Sol Solet Ramon and Torrente, and Saura r artistically by Salvado showed the also He rs. collecto both sought after by Mariscal?

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finally, I will list here some Christmas specials be in time for Santa's annual gift season.

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Castle (9781405090315), the "somethinghth" fairy carousel book for little girls, again illustrated in sweet pink, yellow, and blue by Louise Comfort, but with rather complex paper engineering. The series has not yet reached an end since the was dummy of next year's sequel as Fairy Funfair. The couple will My already on display with the first two titles of lan Macmil at pop-up next spring series of "Pop-up and new a into have to what seems grown three nes and a pullplay-sce pop-up Play Books," offering ries: My accesso and ers charact with out drawer press-out Show Fashion (for and Fairy re My Pirate Adventu (for boys)

All contemporary paper engineers of fame have collectible pop-up books this fall, and most of them also

showed dummies of their new projects for the coming years.

To avoid any private preferences they will be listed here in

alphabetical order.

At Macmillan's stand was the new pop-up book by Maggie Bateson: My Fairy Bridesmaid

Accidentally, I came across another cute paper novelty offered by the Catalans. The pictural logo of the manifestation Cultura Catalana Singular I Universal was a dancer balancing a stick with a balloon at each end above her head (like a weight-lifter), a design by the Catalan artist Miquel Barceld. At the reception in the Catalan hall I was presented with a writing pad having

girls).

The winner of the 2006 Meggendorfer Award, David of the Carter, appears to be the most prolific paper engineer in which he is titles new six than less no fair, offering involved. The man who brought the pop-up book to a new

artistic level not seen before, continues his excellent series of artists' books-for-a-general-public with 600 Black Spots: A Pop-up Book for Children of All Ages from Little Simon on the third (9781416940920). My copy already lays open se of my showca admired most the to be what of level proves Blue 2. and Dot Red One earlier his It accompanies study. the of ced series, announ other two the parts await I eagerly still the fill to empty the on up coiors, based also primary levels of my showcase. The dummy of the fourth volume was seen at White Heat and will be published next year as The Yellow Square; a final volume was said to feature the color white in 2009.

Early 2008 Robin Corey Books, a Random House imprint, will publish Dr. Seuss s Horton Hears a Who Pop-up! with pop-ups by

this logo on the front and as a small figure on each of its blank pages. When I, in an unthinking moment, played with the block and, in fun, flip-flapped the pages, I double pirouette on the suddenly saw the dancer make a block appeared to double as a flip pages! The writing how wonder many people who got a copy book. I really this that will discover gimmick is included, what makes this pad an unnoticed, and hence, a rare collector's item for sure.

Obvious collectibles by the old names and a new one that the

Looking over the new releases in the few days new Movable Stationery deadline policy allows me, I think the output as seen at this year's fair was not as

there were a lot of spectacular as last year's. However, on display that books e movabl and very nice new pop-up of the to your reporter. Let us start greed lodged an appeal! with an mventory of the tion contribu in this part of my own new titles of the well-kn paper engineers of experience as far as was seen in next and their plans for year the name of a new add to like would Frankfurt. Next, I two first gems with who man to this list, one popped up to come. And, book other for two great and showed plans

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Intervisual Books, now an imprint of the Dalmatian from Atlanta, Georgia, will issue The Publishing Group a sequel to his Glittery Crittery Pop-up Counting Book, earlier Glitter Critters. Harcourt Children's Books brings

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out this fall Sarah Week's Peek in My Pocket A Lift-thePop-up Book, engineered by David Carter, like her

Everyday Paper Pops! and Where Pop-up Meets Origami.

Offering a very complex mixture of origami folded figures

flap

earlier Ruff! Ruff! Where's Scruff? and Who's Under that

(beautiful birds) and more traditional pop-up elements, the result is a highly collectible book that shows all the skills of the master engineer. For decades Diaz has been acclaimed by both collectors and paper engineers. Popigami is surely one of my favorites of the fair, with the potential of growing into a classic in the field.

Hat? Those who thought or even hoped that Carter would eventually overcome his bug-obsession, will be surprised to see a new title next summer, Beach Bugs from Little Simon. Since several of the titles of his Bugs series have for years been in the top-ten list of Simon & Schuster's bestselling children's books, you can guess why he continues to pursue his bug-o-mania. Honi soit qui mal y pense as even the British King's weapon says.

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Though his well-known, large fold-out pop-ups of the human body, dinosaurs, etc. were seen on the fair at several international stands, the only new book we 4 found paper engineered by David Hawcock was The Pompeii Popup (9780789315694), written by Peter Riley with Dr. Thorston Opper, a curator of Greek and Roman antiquities at the British Museum. Published by Universe, the 11x11-inch, six spread pack, builds a 3-D picture of Pompeian life before the disaster of the year AD 79. It examines the events of the fateful day that Mount Vesuvius erupted, and shows how the archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli recently unveiled the hidden city. It is well done, though we think the kind of paper used for the pop-ups is too weak.

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new Commander Nova's Pop-up Alien Space Station, illustrated by Steve Cox and mirroring the format of their earlier The Pirate Ship. To come next year is the simple but cute Penelope the Piglet: A Pop-up Book(9780230016156) illustrated by Ant Parker and a clear sequel to their highly successful, and often reprinted, Charlie the Chick of many years ago.

Alison Green Books, an imprint of Scholastic (the big publishing houses know how to honor their editors), brings the sweet and girlish My Mermaid Princess Palace: A Magical Pop-up World (9780439950275) illustrated by Dawn Apperley and paper engineered by Denchfield.

Ron van der Meer returns to his core business, the making of great pop-up books, after a six year sabbatical and an adventure as a glamorous business man. His How Many?

A Pop-up (9780375842269) is a counting book for adults in which each spread features a different shape square, circle, that pops up in a wonder of star, triangle, rectangle inventive and intricate paper artwork showing the maestro at his best. No wonder we saw the book also in a British edition at Doubleday, an Australian edition at Five Mile -

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Press, and planned editions in German at Coppenrath, and in French at Hachette. There is also a limited edition with an extra string-activated pop-up embedded in the front cover.

His packager, Graham Brown, who proudly showed me the framed award he received from the fair authorities for having a stand at the fair for 25 years, told me that Ron is already working on a sequel that will be humorously entitled How Many More? to come next year.

No longer attending the Book Fair, and leaving the commercial handwork of negotiating and selling the rights of the books packaged by his company White Heat to his capable and very friendly lady assistants, James Diaz apparently has found the time to again make a pop-up book himself. Restricting himselfin

From the other Dutch paper engineer, Kees Moerbeek, comes another adult pop-up book, Even More Outrageous Pop-up Celebrity Meltdowns (9781595910349) published by Dorling Kindersley, but not available to view at their stand.

recent years to supporting the paper engineers whose works he packaged, and doing just a series of sturdy earlylearning "My First Jumbo Books" with simple paper artwork (that, however, internationally sold very well), he now surprises with a great and innovative novelty. Piggy Toes Press will publish next year his Popigami (9781581176414), whose double subtitles characterize very well the innovation and techniques used: When

Keith Moseley is by far the longest active paper engineer, and still a leader, and for that reason alone deserves to be included in the Guinness book ofrecords. Despite his age, he has two new pop-up books this fall and brings an innovative novelty as well. Abrams publishes his Dragon World: A Pop-up Guide to These Scaled Beasts. (9780810994560), A 5

reader follows the silvery trail of a snail through an allwhite, enchanting maze of stunning pop-up landscapes "that range from tranquil to mysterious to magical" as the catalog says. Very complex, well-executed paper artwork ends up with a brilliant last spread as a poetic paper sculpture that no longer flattens down, but three-dimensionally embeds in the

kind of a reference book on his beloved dragons,

answering

such

questions as what dragons like, what they eat, and how they

deepened back cover of the book. It is my personal favorite and my choice for the next Meggendorfer Award! A musthave for any collector for sure.

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counterpart to last year's Dragons: A Pop-up Fantastic Adventures that told about the role

Another dummy that was first seen in 2001 with the working title The Cat with Nine Lives will finally be published next year. Jan Pienkowski will see his colorful book appear as The Ninja Cat from Matthew Price. One of its spreads reproduces the well-known whale pop-up from the Harold Lentz Pinocchio book from the 1930s, now engineered by Steve Augarde and Helen Balmer.

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his dragons played in various legends. And, again, turn the magnificently engineered dragons fly out as you second new title, pages. Dorling Kindersley brings his Dream House (9780756630904), using the other format in which Mr. Moseley excels, the carousel book. From one side there is the front of a Georgian doll's house, from the other side there are open rooms over the house and the garden. In all there are eight rooms to play in, a diary-style booklet of a Georgian girl, and push-out card templates to add furniture and accessories for the house Innovative, however, this time (Moseley, earlier in his career, refined the floors of the carousel format to flatten better than they did before) is the addition of glowing lights in the rooms that can be turned on and off!

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The just released, wonderful The Wild West Pop-up Book (9781402746284) by master engineer Anton Radevsky dominated the entrance of its publisher Sterling. Above their reception desk, the entire old west town that folds out from the center spread of the book with gatefolds on both sides, made a show. It was completed by the freestanding stagecoach, the covered wagon drawn by oxen, the steam engine with passenger and coal cars, and the great papersculptured cowboy in full regalia on his horse. Not only an informative nostalgic book, it is also a wonder of paper engineering. In this book the Bulgarian master got the opportunity to enclose many exciting bonuses which are stored in the deepened front and back covers.

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Six years after his first dummy was seen at White Heat in 2001, Chuck Murphy will now finally have the A pleasure of seeing published his Animal Babies A to Z: Press.

Pop-up Book (9781581176520) from Piggy Toes Previously, it was thought of as a double-sized sequel to the wonderful black and white books Murphy did in the 1990s (Colors, One to Ten, Black Cat and White Cat, etc.). Each double spread of this nice oblong book has a

Rizzoli, a sequel to his bestselling Architecture Pop-up Book

(2004), that continues where that book stopped. The book will be published in 2008 by Universe as Modern Architecture Pop-up Book. It will start with a model of the Crystal Palace, as built for the Great Exhibition in London 1851, and will feature further icons of modern architecture including, most likely, the Barcelona Pavillion of Le Corbusier, the Rietveld-Schréder House by Rietveld, and a skyscraper in Dubai. The dummy looked very promising,

the series of four flaps with letters from the alphabet whole executed in black and white only. When a flap is opened there pops up a full color animal (whose name starts with that letter) with her young. A nice and surprising design, it surely deserves to be published after all these years. Robin Corey Books will bring out a -

indeed, even though the exact contents were not yet set.

The new book by Matthew Reinhart was on display at the stand of Scholastic only as a

Murphy book before Easter 2008: The Great Bunnyville Easter Egg Hunt, for which the blurb promises "fun, intricate paper engineering with lots of glitter." But I didn't see it, since Robin Corey Books attended the fair for

dummy since the printed copies were not yet available. Star Wars: A Pop-up Guide to the

only a short time.

An absolute gem of design and paper engineering and a pop-up highlight of this year's fair indeed, is David

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Galaxy (9780439882828) will be on sale in November and celebrates the 30" anniversary of the well-known space fantasy saga. It is another voluminous

remarkable publications at once. And, what's more, he proves to be not a "mayfly," since he also showed the pop-up books he will bring out in 2008 and 2009!

paper-extravaganza from the Reinhart-Sabuda studio and has an intriguing use of lights as an extra. It is a must both for fans of the Star Wars fantasy universe as well as for the lovers of spectacular paper engineering. The completed trilogy of the Encyclopedia Prehistorica that Reinhart did with Robert Sabuda, was seen at the stand of Walker Books, to come next year as a boxed set. There will be additional, freestanding paper-engineered beasts stored in a drawer built in the slipcase. Walker Books also showed the first part of a new trilogy of a same format by the star-couple: Encyclopedia Mythologica: Fairies and Magical Creatures, now in oblong (19x24 cm), with glittering special effects and announced for summer 2008.

The name of this young man, still in his twenties, is Sam Ita. For me, he is already now one of the "names" in the field of quality pop-up books. Information from Sterling, his publisher, states that he studied graphic design at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and currently lives in Los Angeles. At Pratt he was an apprentice to ... Robert Sabuda, which explains why his work, at least his first book, clearly shows the influence of this master engineer. What a satisfaction for a teacher to have such a talented apprentice!

He apprenticed for five years with Robert and Matthew on their pop-up books, including America the Beautiful, Encyclopedia Prehistorica, and Mommy? Sam went on to work at Americhip, where he created paper-engineered products for such companies as Discovery Channel.

Robert has at Little Simon a new, small format Winter in White: A Mini Pop-up Treat (9781847381798) with white pop-ups on a colored background, a sequel to last year's Christmas: A Mini Popup Treat. The booklet recycles winter images, many of which were featured on pop-up cards and ornaments for the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It is meant for gift giving, and will be published in time for the coming Christmas season. Robert Sabuda at his very best can be seen once more in another "pop-upification" ofa children's book classic. After his magnificent Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz, the books by C. S. Lewis are next. In December HarperCollins will bring out the spectacular Sabuda version of The Chronicles of Narnia: Based on the Books by C. S. Lewis: Pop-ups by Robert Sabuda (9780061176128). Again, a very voluminous, half-cloth book packed with spectacular popup effects in full color on its seven double spreads, one for each of the seven books in the original The Chronicles of Narnia. (Don't forget to read the original, since one spread per volume doesn't leave much room for the original text.) For the bibliophiles amongst the readers, both from Reinhart's Star Wars and from Sabuda's The Chronicles of Narnia were seen one-spread promotionals marked "Not for sale." The real collector's items!

His first book it must be his first since there is a sentimental dedication "For my parents" that authors only use in their "firstlings" is Moby Dick: A Pop-up Book to be (9781402745287) published in November by Sterling.

It will be published a month earlier by Mango Jeunesse in France. It is magnificent, half cloth book executed almost exclusively in greyish sea blue, ship brown, and black, with very complex paper artwork on each spread and added small(er) pop-ups under some flaps and fold-outs, pull-tabs, and a revolving picture. There is some glitter on one of the spreads to accent the rough sea of that episode. Of course, there is a great Pequod, -

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Captain Ahab's boat, which rises impressively from the page, complete with rigging.

And look how ingeniously the sides of the boat fold away when the asymmetrically spread is closed! Captain Ahab himself erects impressively far outside the page of the third spread and see how ingeniously the small boats under the right hand flap of that spread unfold. In the last spread, readers actually look through a 3-D periscope and see Ishmael through the "lens," drifting in the ocean. And, sure, there are some clumsy beginner faults, too; the white whale, for instance, on the fifth spread, looks too rectangular, more like a sea container than like a streamlined deep sea inhabitant. The text, after the famous novel by Herman Melville, starting with the famous first words "Call me Ishmael," has been printed in colorful, comic book-style panels that convey the story's drama. It makes the book look like a graphic novel an innovation in pop-up books for sure. Really a great book to treasure as the first of what, I hope, will grow an elaborate oeuvre.

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A new name: Sam Ita To my knowledge, it has never happened in the history of pop-up books, that out of nowhere came an all-in-one designer/scenarist/illustrator/paper engineer who emerged with a spectacular and innovative pop-up book, with complexity that most paper engineers would be glad to do after years of experience in the profession. However, this year's Frankfurt Book Fair had the privilege to reveal such a multi-talent who takes his place in the market of pop-up and novelty books with the creation of no less than two

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The dummy of next year's pop-up book by Sam Ita was seen at Sterling too: a completed and equally impressive under the pop-up version of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues of edition Sea: A Pop-up Book. For 2009 another pop-up r's Stoke Bram a classic novel was announced: Frankenstein. With Ita's second paper-engineered to the last section of this publication for this fall, we come on the new titles of the Frankfurt part of my contribution Book Fair.

Five Mile Press from Australia lists a Silent Night & the Other Christmas Carols (9781741785845) that copies The last Before from Night year, format of their book es Christmas. The book, illustrated by Lee Krutop, featur the of CD a es includ and (simple) pop-ups and lift-the-flaps, carols especially recorded for this book. r More innovative was the promising dummy at Walke 3-D A mas: r Christ al Magic Books of A Present for Fathe illustrated and paper Adventure, told by Dana Kubick and the 3-D engineered by David Wood. By looking through reader the a , of pop-up house lenses, as built in the windows be It will views Father Christmas' magical pop-up grotto. . season mas published for the next Christ

Seasonal novelties for Christmas

of Christmastime on trade generates a certain number of

Every year the commercial impact

the book and toy don't Christmas and Santa novelty books. They usually Let's tors. show much originality, but do find a lot of collec see what the publishers are offering this year.

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(9781402745294), a green flocked box with an 80-page booklet containing Christmas carols, recipes, directions for

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folding origami ornaments,

centerpiece: an almost two foil boughs, foot tall Christmas tree with such things as box doubles The tree star a anda . topper glittery ornaments, than a as a tree stand. It is more a novelty 3-D paper toy

up

Little, Brown publishes

Fischer's

Activity

Book

(9781845062170) by Julie Sykes and Tim Warnes. Templar's Christmas is Coming: A Pop-up

the

Christmas World A Pop-up Book (9780316117951) about which more was discussed in the interview published in the February 2007 issue of Movable Stationery.

While not on display in Frankfurt, it seems to be of the season. the most elaborate Christmas pop-up book

Christmas

Celebration

and is paper (9781840115819) is by Stella Gurney engineered by Jonathan Lambert.

Endnotes ' Spiel Mit! Papierspiele aus dem Verlag Jos, Scholz Mainz.

3-9805506-9-9. 84 Mainz, Gutenberg-Museum, 2006. ISBN: pages. 12.00.

2 All published by Edicions de 1'Eixample, Barcelona. Some tion of are picture in the well-known catalog of the collec s Llibre movable books of Quim Corominas, Pop-up 17.

116-1 Movibles I Tridimensionals, pp.

3.

For address, opening times, etc. see the website of the museum:

Well done, but with just one laser-cut pop-up of Santa in his

sleigh drawn by the reindeers for a finale, is The Night Before Christmas A Magical Cut-paper Edition (9780763634698), from

Candlewick/Walker

Nativity

(9781405321839) with a pull-out nativity play scene and pop-up will angels. Little Tiger Press issue a Santa story with simple Shhh! pop-ups on every page in

pop-up.

Around

Fees

Christmas books with novelty elements. Campbell Books has Poppy Cat's Snowy Day (9781405093071) featuring the Lara Jones character of Poppy Cat and with pull-tabs and + 4 (sumple) pop-ups on every is page. Robin Corey Books is tmas Chris publishing board book with a wheel by Lisa Ann

Coming!, a shaped Marsoli and illustrated by Lucy Barnard. Dorling Kindersley has The Christmas Story: A Pop-

instructions for assembling the kit's

and

Chuck

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Books,

illustrated with silhouettes by Niroot Puttapipat.

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Musings, continued from page 2

His book, Eyes, Lies and Illusions, is available and is a wonderful reference.

Our children may be more burdened than enamored by our collection. So we must either educate them on how best to dispose of the collection, or better yet, do it ourselves and give them the money. I struggle with this now that I have gone through the estate sale of my parents' house. I just experienced what it is like to sell off the contents of my parents' house after 35 years of collecting and the associated memories. The estate dealers brought in two different book dealers who both low-balled the entire collection of art books, reference and children's books. I refused. When sold individually at the house sale, the books brought in much more money, as well as making many collectors happy. Finding a good home for the items is my primary concern. We still love these movable books.

I often regret the acts of omission more than acts of commission. By that, I mean I despair about the ones that got away more than the mistakes of overpaying and the mistakes of buying repaired, broken goods in the heat of the moment at auction or from a dealer. My mother says: "Act in haste, repent in leisure."

I will impart the wisdom my father gave to me in collecting coins, which also applies to antiques, books and collectibles. In the past, we went to antique shows and coin shows together. I was his eyes. He was the banker and negotiator. We could always walk away. That was a tough lesson for a kid who had to have it. My father's father taught him: "If you want it and can afford it, buy it.

If you don't have the money, you don't need it."

Pappy's Principles for Collecting 1. Buy what you like. Buy what you love to own, display, admire, and are impassioned about. It is not an investment or business first and foremost. If you chase what is hot or what everyone else likes, you will never be happy.

2. Buy at the right price. If you buy right, you never have to worry about selling. It will sell itself. It is hard to be the under-bidder at an auction (I know what it feels like to go "just one more bid"). It is hard to walk away from a dealer, to "think" about it, only to have the next person snatch up the find. It takes discipline and patience to think like a dealer. Every book you buy will eventually be sold.

Unless you are one of the lucky ones to donate a collection toa library or even more lucky to have a museum buy your collection, everything will be sold. We just rent the books, we do not own them. It is our duty to take care of them.

Buy in the best condition you can afford in whatever price range. Buy only the best, pristine, mint in box, in dust jacket, etc. These appreciate the most over time. If you have five copies of a book in average/fair condition each worth $50, in 5-10 years they probably will still only be worth $250 3.

together. Perhaps you can get your money back. However, if you agonized and overpaid for one pristine copy for $300 in 5-10 years you may double your money or more at auction.

Some dealers will let you trade up and exchange a lesser quality book for a better one and pay the difference.

Collectors are always looking for the best. Everyone loves books in fine condition. You never have to apologize for the book, or make excuses. It gets tougher to get good material, and competition is fierce. The dust jacket in the book world is the box in the toy world. A bad restoration is worse than no restoration.

4. Stick to what you know. Be an expert. Know more than everyone else in a particular area. You can't be a jack-of-alltrades. Read everything. Talk to everyone. Be aware. Listen.

Good reference books, auction catalogs and dealers catalogs are the best investments. Educate yourself. Like Sy Sims says: "An educated consumer is our best customer."

5. Rarity may change over time. Ebay is the great equalizer.

The market is now worldwide, not just in the USA. I have seen Nister's in dust jackets and Meggendorfer's that I have never seen offered by dealers, on ebay. Books that were thought to be rare now turn up frequently. Have patience.

Oftentimes a high price at auction will bring out another copy from someone's attic, which, when offered, is much less in price. It is risky to be the first to buy something when you have to have it. I have succumbed to this myself at

auction.

Trust your instincts. If it is very unusual, go for it.

Always think the other person knows more than you do. Be humble. Assume that they have done their homework.

Rarely can we pull the wool over a seller's eyes and steal a 6.

book. If it is too good to be true, there is probably something wrong with it. The first impressions you get, that this is the "real deal," or the funny feelings you get that something is not right, are probably correct. Read the book Blink by Malcolm Gladwell to see how the Getty Museum was fooled.

7. Have patience. The contest is won more often by the marathon runner than the sprinter. Be both the tortoise and hare. If you are in for the long haul, eventually everything comes up over time. The most unusual pieces in my collection I have not seen for 10 years. If you can wait 20 years, you will probably have seen everything at least twice.

However, I am continually surprised by what turns up at auction from an estate or lifelong collection.

Jack-in-the-books (2)

8. Cross over to other related areas. I call this lateral movement. Optical toys, games, puzzles, miniature books, postcards, ephemera, and advertising are some of the related areas that I have found rewarding. Good finds of movable ephemera can be found at postcard shows, and paper shows could have movable books. Cross over to other countries, like Europe and Canada for material, either by auction, or dealers. Material that has crossover potential has a great likelihood of being popular, pursued by collectors from different collecting fields and being easier to sell. A favorite piece from my collection is a miniature harlequinade that I have never seen offered again. I purchased it from Bromer Booksellers, who specialize in miniatures. It has the appeal for movable book collectors and also has a magic lantern on the front, which appeals to optical toy collectors. Some of my favorite pieces have this appeal to various crossover collections.

Theo Gielen In my contribution "Jack-in-the-books: A Provisional Survey," published in the August, 2007 issue of Movable Stationery, I requested additional titles from readers. I received both positive reactions and additions. Since two brought to my attention variations to the format, including an edition by an illustrator who is beloved by many of us, I would like to share this information with the readers.

In my study of these books, in which a fully shaped head swivels up around a grommet above the text to extend beyond the cover, and a pair of shaped legs swivels below, I found that the European editions always had the paper doll coming out from the inside of the back cover. As a result, the clothes that dress the figure appear on the right hand (recto) pages. However, the American editions, as published in the Bonnie Books series by the Samuel Lowe Company from Kenosha, Wisconsin, had the paper doll on the inside of the front cover and the clothes on the left hand side (verso) of the pages. What would have been more obvious than to combine both and do two paper dolls in one book? But I had never see that variation of the format, until after the publication of my article.

9. Know the intrinsic worth, or value of an item. Have the guts to be able to walk away and know the consequences of your actions. No one can say what the piece means to you, if you "have to have it." Realize the connection to an object is more than just the material value. There are the memories, the chase, the negotiation, the display, and the thrill of discovery at finding your missing piece. There is a mystical story that says that when a person is born, he is given the most of the pieces to his puzzle but also a few pieces to someone else's puzzle that are of no value to him. Our lives consist of putting our puzzle together and helping another person find their missing pieces. Finding my purpose in life and piecing together the puzzle of my existence is one of the gratifying ways that collecting has helped shape me.

In the collection of one of the members of HO,

a

Movable Book Society a copy of another

the

Bonnie Book popped up, entitled Little Boy Meets Little Girl Story Jackin-book with Twin Mala Eva Figures with a paper doll boy pasted on the inside of the front cover and a paper doll girl on the inside of the back cover. It was published as Bonnie Book #4071 by Samuel Lowe Company in 1957, and copyrighted like the others in the series by James & Jonathan, both based in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Neither the author nor the illustrator is named. Unlike the other parts of the Bonnie Books Jackin-the-books series, here the images of the boy and girl twins have been pasted into the insides of the covers; there are no grommets, and the heads just fold up to show above the book block. Additionally, the legs of the figures are not movable, but simply a part of the illustration within the pages. The instruction at the

10. Know your dealer. A good and experienced dealer is the best friend, colleague and investment a collector can make. Ironically, a dealer like Joann Reisler, who knows her material well, may price a book more fairly than an inexperienced dealer who thinks he has a great rarity, and overprices the book. The naive dealer also may have paid too much and has not scrutinized the condition as much as Joann. So you are paying for her experience. On the other hand, do not exclude buying from non-children's, non pop-up dealers. A general dealer who buys an estate collection oftentimes wholesales the books because that is not his field of expertise. Some of the finest collections in this country have been built by dealers supplying antiquities to a collector over a lifetime. They help you hone your vision.

Have fun collecting. It is

(

most rewarding experience.

As I said at the MBS conference, there are three things

boy Tommy's feet says: "For More Fun, To meet Tommy, Lift Tommy's head. You will be told when to meet the little Mala Eva from the back girl." Tommy loses his bali into cover

necessary to build a fine collection: time, money and vision. I hope the above 10 principles help you to achieve your own personal vision.

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work. Your last book dealt with big theories of evolutionary biology and symbiotic relationships found in nature. Before that, you expressed a study of a marsh ecosystem in pop-up form, and now you have announced your third book in the series. Can you tell me a bit about the themes you explore in this new work?

the girl's yard (her name is never given) and the reader is instructed to then meet her by lifting her head.

of

An other member the Society

recently acquired a

Jack-in-the-book

SS: Richard Leakey, in his book The Sixth Extinction,

from the 1950s that was illustrated by

Vojtech

describes five major catastrophes in Earth's history that led to significant extinctions. He theorizes that the sixth big extinction is close at hand, and that it will be authored by humans. Be it through global warming, habitat destruction, or environmental pollution, humans have the power to destroy species at alarming rates. I am fascinated by evolutionary theory and speciation. Ifhumans (or something else) are successful in instigating a profound die-off, I wonder which species might survive and flourish in a new environment, and what new species might then branch off from those survivors. I wonder what anatomical adaptations they might acquire in their proliferation.

KubaSta.

Although the works

of

this

Czech

illustrator and paper engineer have been researched and extensively inventoried in recent years, and several attempts have been made to catalog and describe his complete works, this title appears to have escaped attention until now. Published in1954, Mala Eva (Little Eva) must be one of the earliest movable books done by KubaSta. It was written by Frantisek Kozik, printed in Moravia, and published by Osveta Martin in Prague. There is another novelty of the usual format that I thought was first done by Keith Faulkner in the 1990s: this heavy cardboard KubaSta book contains three swiveling heads, two of a little girl and one of an infant, as well as one pair of rotating legs. There are only a few pages that form the activities and the dresses.

Malad Eva

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from the front cover

My pop-up book, Beyond the 6th Extinction: A Fifth Millennium Bestiary, includes eight creatures featured in their post-apocalyptic environments. Thus they are armored for protection against extreme temperatures and toxic surroundings, or of extraordinary color due to lack of predators and high reproductive competition. Each animal is accompanied by supporting text that is meant to read like a

The provisional survey of these movable books that I gave in my earlier

field guide sharing information about the species, diet, and habitat. And because I am a cautious optimist, I have given each of these creatures a recycling job; for example, the rex roach (a massive edition of today's well-known pest) is fundamental in the clean up of radioactive waste, the petey bug (evolved from today's pill bug) digests plastics, and the

contribution, has been

substantially augmented by these wonderful additions. I want to thank Bettyrae

dandy worm (the unintentional bioengineered cross between a cabbage grub and a dandelion) reduces concrete to its constituent parts.

Eisenstein and Ellen Rubin, the Pop-up Lady (who truly is that young), for their information.

KO: Mutant radioactive cockroaches; sounds like the

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making of a good villain for a Godzilla movie. How has the book been received so far?

Shawn Sheehy , Continued from page 1

SS: I have just begun production on the edition of 15 books

SS: I still think that it is the redheaded stepchild to painting, sculpture and the more established arts. You

and have displayed the proof copy at our neighborhood art festival a few weeks ago. The kids really loved it, but it was equally interesting to see their parents get into some of the underlying elements of the book. I mean it's much darker and more adult than my other work, but you still can't avoid the cuddly aspect when you have a turtle rise ten inches off the page. But beware, this book has sharp teeth to it!

know, it is slow going. I think the Chicago book arts community has a reputation for being more craft orientated. Being identified as craft can be a sort of stigma in the art world, and other Chicago schools like the University of Illinois in Chicago and the School of the Art Institute are much, much more theory based. We make things, and they talk about making things. I like that Book Arts are still considered a little outsider-y; it almost gives book artists carte blanche to define their ideas. I love to make things. I don't have a great brain for theory.

KO: Speaking of production, I was green with envy when I learned that you have just purchased a laser cutter. Now that you don't have to cut out the hundreds of pieces by hand, did you just throw away your scissors? How has this new tool changed your working method?

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are the same whether one is making a pop-up book for major public sales or a small-run. At first one has to create "volume" or a structure with the paper and then it has to be flattened, scanned, and reworked on the computer. The form of the book cannot be designed in advance. It can only progress in an empiric way. As in sculpture, paper is a material. It is torn and then cut with care. One has to take away material, one has to put it back. The idea is for a volume to appear out of the sheet of paper, and most of all that it folds down without difficulty. To fold it, of course, is the hardest part. To open it out is simple but to reclose it is more complicated, as there always seems to be a small piece

SS: Actually it is a plotter/cutter that uses a pivoting blade instead of a laser. And it is amazing! Eight hours of work

has been compressed into twenty minutes. The plotter is SO precise it has forced me to create better technical caveats. Icreate drawings, so that is a bonus. But there are handmade papers for all of my books, and the sheets have a different texture and thickness than conventional paper, so I have almost dulled my first blade that was meant to

last one year. There are little things like that.

KO: Well once you get the kinks out and finish production, what are you setting your sights goals or projects?

on for future

of unfoldable paper that sticks out of the page.

Third dimension

SS: Besides my teaching post at Columbia, I have been

How and why is there such an enthusiasm for the third dimension? Why do we need to build up form out of a book or a postcard? Nowadays, we can see that the pop-up has passed out of the world of children's art to become the artists' book, or an object of theater decor and even an integral part of wall-painting (murals).

one doing some commercial work for a few clients. to convey am I Girl Co. American the with trying project the major events of the Depression Era to nine-year-old girls through pop-up. In another collaboration, I am creating pop-up designs to illustrate the formal elements of sculpture. The American Girl work is coming along more quickly and easily. And in January of next year I will take an artist residency in Costa Rica to develop my next book project.

In

French pop-up Even though most pop-up artists today are Anglo-Saxons,

a great interest in the art form is beginning to build in Europe, particularly in France.

KO: Let's hope you come back with another interesting pop-up book, or at the very least a good tan.

Didier Boursin is a paper designer who works in origami.

He is not, technically speaking, a pop-up book artist, he has never practiced it, but he speaks about paper in the same way as do the artists acclaimed in the world of book art, Hosftra Sjoerd, Robert Sabuda, Debra Weier, Maria Pisano, Maddy Rosenberg, and Marion Bataille, who made an alphabetical Up-Op, distributed Les Trois Ours (The three bears). The postcards of Julie Morel are not yet books, but are trying to become books. Is not a book just a succession of folded sheets acting under the same conditions as postcards?

Philippe Ug breaks depth; he doesn't research perspective.

What he does not do in image he finds in volume. But how to fold back a structure? For some, it's playing with shadows using white paper; for others, the opposite works, getting rid of all the tricks, and keeping just the paper's basic structure by using a colored paper, black, for example.

Beyond the 6th Extinction: A Fifth Millennium Bestiary by Shawn Sheehy. This limited edition pop-up book is created from handmade paper and is letterpress printed. It contains eight pop-ups over 11 spreads including title, introduction and colophon pages. Book trim size is 7" x 10" x 2%". Pre-publication sale price: $5,000.00. To obtain more information about this title and other projects by Shawn, please contact the following address: Shawn Sheehy, 1907 S Halsted St, Ste.1, Chicago, IL 60608. Or swsheehy@earthlink.net

Pop-up: A Sculptured Book Gaélle Pelachaud Paris, France

Art work above all Through my travels and my meetings, I have realized that, for the creation of artists' books, the collaboration with a poet is not a priority in the USA as it is in France. For those artists I met, the book is (above all) a "sculpture." The conceptualization and the making of it are the artist's first priorities. For them, the importance is the "book" itself, without discussion about its nature. Each artist takes on this art form primarily to expand their knowledge, and even Robert Sabuda, who is most often faced with "made-toorders," the practical discoveries are the priority; the dialogue comes later.

For my thesis in arts at the Sorbonne Animated Books, Moving Images, I spent a week in New York in August meeting pop-up artists and collectors. They all expressed their thrill of working with paper, a thrill I had already felt and experienced in France.

Sculptured paper

Paper is manipulated, worked, it becomes magical, its flat nature begins to move. How do you create and bring out life and movement from a closed book? This is a recurring question for every pop-up artist. The problems

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Movable Reviews

Rating: 5

Marilyn Olin Livingston, New Jersey 1

= AWFUL

3

=0.K.

HOW MANY by Ron van der Meer. Each pop-up page features a different shape and

2= POOR 4=GOOD

a spectacular paper sculpture and questions pertaining to

5 = SUPERB

that pop-up. It's a fascinating book by a master.

A quick summary of some great pop-ups.

Rating: 3+

Rating: 5+ 600

HINDU ALTARS by Robert Beer and the paper

BLACK SPOTS

by David A. Carter. Part of his five book project which so far has included One Red Dot and Blue 2 and this current one. It is full of kinetic pop-ups (or sculptures) and they are fabulous. Each one is wonderful and whimsical and will be enjoyed by children and adults.

ye

engineering is by Bruce Foster. Four, three-dimensional altars in this nicely done "package" open down, one following the other. Each pop-up is beautifully illustrated and a brief description of that deity is given.

*

eq

Rating: 4

THE POMPEH POP-UP.

Published

by

Universe

Publishing, an imprint of Rizzoli New York. Author: Peter

Riley. Paper Engineer: David Hawcock. Many well done realistic pop-ups with an excellently written history about its subject. A dynamic way to learn about Pompeii for children

Rating: 4+

and adults.

TITANIC by David Hawcock. This contains one two-anda-half-foot long 3-D model of the ship and six small pop-

up scenes. It also has many reproductions of Titanic trivia (menus, newspapers, etc.) and a 32-page book tracing the

Rating: 5

1. THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN POP-UP. 2. X-MEN POP-UP. Marvel True Believers

Titanic's history.

Rating: 3+

Retro Character Collection.

Published by Candlewick Press.

These are both great pop-up books. Part of a series on Marvel Comics characters, they are colorful, entertaining and fun. The paper engineering by Andy Mansfield is special. A must-have for collectors.

RICHARD SCARRY'S BUSIEST POP-UP EVER!

This is the best of all the Richard Scarry pop-up books and would make a wonderful gift for a young boy. All kinds of movable machines pop-up ending with a wonderful pileup of about 23 vehicles.

Rating: 3+

Rating: 4

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN-THE BLACK PEARL. Pop-ups by Wayne Kalama. This is a Disney

HOORAH FOR THE BRA. Published by Stewart, Tabori

& Chang. Pop-ups by Bruce Foster. Cheree Berry has

Press book and has one huge 3-D pop-up of the pirate ship and many punch-out figures.

devised a provocative idea for a pop-up book. The pop-ups are not difficult but really fun to look at. As the copy says, "An uplifting story" about the history of the bra.

Rating: 4

Rating: 4+

POPPED ART by Elizabeth Murray. Pop-ups by Bruce

Foster. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. This is an adult pop-up book in which Foster takes Murray's 3-D art work and creates pop-up variants of them. There are only four pop-ups but this is interesting for what the artist and Foster try to do.

GRACELAND: AN INTERACTIVE POP-UP TOUR. Paper engineering: Chuck Murphy. Published by Quirk Books Inc. Each page has pop-ups featuring replicas of Graceland 's famous sites and/or other things pertaining to Elvis. A book for any collector or Elvis fan. A super-duper

production.

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Pop-up Christmas Windows in Paris

Rating: 5+

THE JUNGLE BOOK. Paper

Like any metropolis of the world, the Christmas windows of the big department stores in Paris are spectacular and attract millions of tourists each year. For the lovers of popup books there is a special attraction this year. The wellknown Galeries Lafayette, with a budget of one million

engineering: Matthew Reinhart.

Published by Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.

Another fabulous book in the tradition of Reinhart-Sabuda.

Each page has more colorful and

Euros to spend on their holiday displays, invited the French book artist UG (Philippe Huger) to design some of their windows. UG will fill three windows with giant pop-up paper artworks done in his characteristic graphic style and in the bright colors, known from his artists' books with popups, published in the last 20 or more years. The windows can be seen from mid-October until mid-January. An exhibition has been planned for the same period that will be a survey of UG's pop-up artists' books in the new premises of the Boutique du Livre Animé, the Paris pop-up bookshop.

exciting pop-ups than the one before it. Matthew, how can you top this one?!

Rating: 4

NOVA THE ROBOT-SUPER GALACTIC POP-UP. Paper engineering: David Kirk. Published by Callaway Arts & Entertainment. This is an imaginative pop-up from the author of the Miss Spider series. Multiple pop-ups about Nova the Robot and his friends, and their quest to explore galaxies. Illustrations pop-ups are exciting.

Children will love this one.

La Boutique du Livre Animé on the Move At the end of September, the Paris pop-up bookshop La Boutique du Livre Animé, owned by Jacques Desse and Thibaut Brunessaux, closed their stand at the Marché Paris flea market at Porte Dauphine, part of the The Glignancourt. shop re-opened in October in the tastefully restyled ground floor of a stately and typical Paris "Hotel" at the more centrally situated Rue Pierre 'Ermite.

The new, large, 100-square meter premises offers more opportunities to display the movable and pop-up treasures and paper toys they always have in stock both ancient and modern collectibles. Additionally, there will be space for special exhibitions related to their speciality. To celebrate their new opening, an exhibition has been planned that will show a survey of the pop-up artists' books of the French graphic designer and artist Philippe Huger, better known as UG. It will be available from early November till early January 2008.

Rating: 4 LIGHTHOUSES: A POPUP GALLERY OF

AMERICA'S

MOST

BELOVED BEACONS.

Paper engineering by Linda Costello and Bruce Foster.

There are five large doublepage pop-ups of lighthouses, plus the history of each one in this book. It is also an elegant example of book-making.

Everything has been done with an eye for beauty. As a person who usually makes one-of-a-kind artists' books, Linda has made this a lovely commercial one.

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Boutique du Livre Animé 3, Rue Pierre 1'Ermite 75018 Paris telephone: 01-42572024 e-mail: boutiquedulivreanime@wanadoo.fr

Rating: 5 NEIMAN MARCUS POP UP BOOK (No hyphen). This large, beautiful pop-up book was published

by Neiman Marcus and the fabulous huge pop-ups were paper engineered by Kees Moerbeek.

This is a limited edition and a "must" for any collector.

The book measures 14" x 12" and comes with a slip case.

Available from Neiman Marcus.

Auction Bloomsbury Auctions will be having a children's book auction on Wednesday, December 12. About 40 lots of books are from Larry Siedmans' collection. They include early pop-ups, movables, and panoramas from Nister, Dean, Meggendorfer, Tuck, Capendu, Bookano, Blue Ribbon, McLoughlin, and foreign language editions. Bloomsbury Auctions is new to New York City, and the catalog can be ordered free ofcharge. http://www.bloomsburyauctions.com

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Exhibits

Questions and Answers

Q. A recent purchase of the relicts of

movable book

from the 19" century puzzles me greatly. Unfortunately, there are only two pages (below) of a movable with pulla tabs featuring circus acts. There is neither a cover nor the of most since but title page. The text is in Dutch, movables books of the time were international cowill recognize these productions, I hope that somebody Reactions are pages from a book in any language. gratefully received.

Pop-up Books: An Interactive Exhibition Bevier Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, New York 14623 October 19 November 14, 2007 -

The show, curated

by Bill Finewood, features works from top artists in the popup field including

Theo Gielen.

David A. Carter (Bugs in Space), Chuck Fischer (The White House) and Kyle Olmon (Castle).

Oversized pop-ups and interactive components, as well as mock-ups and preparatory work will be displayed alongside

finished pop up cicdtions For gallery hours and more 475-2646 or information, call the Bevier Gallery at (585) http://www.rit.edu/news/?1=45822.

Suellen Glashausser and Her Circles Archives Gallery '50 and Special Collection and University s Librarie Gallery, Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Jersey October 17, 2007 January 10, 2008 -

Artists' books by Suellen Glashausser and 19 artists who worked beside her and shared her vision. For more

The Movable Book Society Conference

information see: http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/news/ events07/07.shtml#3.

Catalogs Received

Washington, D.C. September 18 20, 2008

Old Mill River Rd. Aleph-Bet Books. Catalogue 86. 85 -7410. Fax: 914914-764 Phone: Pound Ridge, NY 10576.

764-1356. Email: helen@alephbet.com.

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Celebrate Old and New Movable Books

http://www.alephbet.com

Cattermole 20" Century Children's Books. Toy Books.

Ohio 44065.

Catalog 44. 9880 Fairmount Road, Newbury, 440-338-3253. Email: books@cattermole.com.

Meet Collectors, Paper Engineers, and Book Artists

http://www.cattermole.com.

Share your Enthusiasm!

La Boutique du Livre Animé. September, 2007. http://livresanimes.com/actualites/actu0709.html

More information will soon be available at:

Jo Ann Reisler, Ltd. Catalogue 79. 360 Glyndon St., NE, Vienna VA. Phone: 703-938-2967. Fax: 703-938-9057. email@joannereisler.com. www.joannreisler.com

http: //movablebooksociety.org

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New Publications

Chewy, Gooey, Rumble, Plop: A Deliciously Disgusting Plop-up Guide to the Digestive System.

Dial $17.99. 978-080373226}.

The following titles have been identified from prepublication catalogs, Internet sources, book store hunting, and advertising. All titles include pop-ups unless otherwise noted and are listedfor information only not

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necessarily as recommendations for purchase.

Christmas

Tree

In-a-box.

Sterling. $14.95. 978-1402745294.

Afraid of the Dark! Back Pack Books. $7.98. 9780760792537

The Chronicles ofNarnia Pop-up: Based on the Books by C. Lewis. Robert Sabuda. HarperCollins. $29.99.

S.

978-0061176128.

Alive the Tivine Breathing Human Body Book. Dik

Publishing.

N

Creatures. Intervisual Books. $16.99. 978-158 176230.

Crawly

$24.99.

9780756632113.

Also:

Dorling Kindersley. £17.99. 9781405326414.

Animal Babies A to Z. By Chuck Murphy. Intervisual Books. $14.95. 978-1581176520. in

Adventure.

Danger!

Simon*",

Spotlight/Nickelodeon. $12.99.

978-1416947172.

A N IMATED

A Book Search-and-find Pop-up with Animal Cards. Tango

Animals

ef

Dance! Dora's Pop-up Dancing

pF

ORIGAMI FACES Sate

Press. $9.98.

978 1857077032.

Fetsa,

Origami Faces. [origami folding] By Joel Stern. Dover Publications. $5.95. 978-0-486-46 174-8.

Animated

Dine Faces

Pop-Up

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>

Dino Pop-up Faces. Intervisual Books. $14.95.

9781581175967.

Architectural Wonders A Pop-up Gallery. Thunder Bay Press $24 95 59223 819 4 978 1

Dinosaurs. Intervisual Books. $19.95.1581175809.

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How Machines Work: Gears, Levers, Pulleys, Axles, Wheels and More. Tango.£12.99 9781857076691.

Even

More

Outrageous

Celebrity Meltdowns: Pop-Up Parodies of Your Favorite Stars. DK Adult. $29.95.

978-1595910349.

If You

See a Fairy Ring.

[Tranformational plates]

Barrons

$16.99.

9780764160288. be:

EXPLORER

Explorer: A Daring Guide for Young Adventurers. Candlewick Press. $15.00.

978-0-7636-3648-7.

I'm not Scared. Little Simon Inspiration. $7.99.

9781416938859.

It's Magic! Pop-up Magic Tricks with Stage. Tango. £12.99.

1857077059.

First

Christmas: A Pop-up Nativity Book. DK. $19.99. 780756631475.

The

Just as T am! Backpack Books. $7.98. 9780760792551.

In with a Splash.

9780760792544.

Also: Fhght

1

Popup Book of

Robert Candlewick.

By

Crowther.

$17.99. 978-0763634599

Magical

Moonlight

Feast.

Warne. $14.99. 978-0723257844.

The Glittery Crittery Counting Book. By David Carter. Piggy Toes. $18.95.

978-1581176513.

Dick

Pop up Book Sterling Publishing. $24.95.

9781402745287.

Moby

Hair 'Em Scare 'Em. Little Simon. $15.99.

9781416954736.

The Night Before Christmas: A Magical Cut-paper Edition. $16.99. Candlewick. 978-0763634698.

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Peek in my Pocket. By David Carter. Red Wagon Books. $10.95. 978-0152058074.

©

The Twelve Days of Christmas.

HarperCollins

My

Children's.

$12.99, 9780061209116.

-Por. UP & READ-

TOWER o: BABEL

Pepper Picks a Pumpkin.

Little

Simon.

$8.99.

978-1416917731.

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Tower of Babel Pop-up and Read. Master Books. $14.99.

978-08905 14870.

WATCH THE DOWER

Popigami. By James Diaz. $26.95. 978-1581176414.

RISE AND UEAD ABOUT

Us

Pop Up Dino IQ. Priddy Bicknell Books. $5.95.

978-03 1250046.

Also: Pop Up Farm 1Q.97803 12500474.

A

A Very Merry Christmas

Pop-up Facts Human Body. Backpack Books. $9.98.

0-7607-9363-8.

Very Merry Christmas. A Little Pop Book.

HarperCollins Children's. $5.99. 9780061227578.

Wild Animals. Pop-up Nature.

Backpack Books. $9.98.

9780760793718.

OLSCOVEROLOGY

by Geoffrey Hayes

SEA MONSTER PREHISTORIC ADVENTUR

A

~

a

Voyage Through Space: An Interactive Journey Through the Solar System and Beyond. Barron's. $18.99.

978-0-764 1-6062-2.

Sea Monsters: The Official

Book. National Geographic Society. $24.99.

1-4263-0176-6.

Pop-up

The Sleeping Beauty Ballet Theatre. Candlewick. $24.99. 9780763634674.

Winter in White A Mini Pop-up Treat. By Robert Sabuda. Little Simon. $12.99. 978-0689853654.

Titanic. Candlewick. $29.99.

978-0763634681

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